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Onychosis

Any nail disease or deformity

Onychophagy

Bitten nails

Eggshell nails

Abnormal thin white nail plates

Onyx

Technical term for the nail

Onychorrhexis

Brittle nails

Mantle

Pocket fold of skin, holds the root and matrix

Cuticle

Skin around the base of the nail

Manicure

Care of hand, skin, and nails

Tinea Pedis

Athletes foot

Ridges

If vertical furrows, if horizontal corrugation

Pyogenic Granuloma

Sever nail inflammation that produces a mass under nail plate

Leukonychia

White spots

Bruised nail

Dark purple

Onychatrophia

Waste away of the nail

Paronychia

Inflammation of the skin surrounding the nail

Perionychium

Skin that over laps on the side of the nail

Onychia

Inflammation of the matrix

Nail root

In the mantle at the base of the nail plate

Nail grooves

Skits that the nail moves along

Matrix

Below the nail root, produces the nail

Green nails

Bacteria infection

Verruca

Wort

Yellow nails

Nicotine, polish stain, bacterial infection, pus

Onychomycosis

Ring worm of the nail (Tinea Unguium)

Onychoptosis

Nail detaches and falls off

Bed Epithelium

Layer of skin cells between nail bed and nail plate

Nail Psoriasis

Pitted or rough surface

Black nails

Injury, mold, heart condition, shoe pressure

Splinter Hemorrage

Brown or black spot under nail plate (looks like splinter) "lines"

Hyponychium

Skin under free edge

Onycholysis

Loosing of the nail

Plicatured nail

Folded nail

Healthy nail

Transulation, slightly pink, smooth, curved, no ridges, no disease

Brown nails

Fun gas, nicotine, injury to matrix, certain medicine

Melanoychia

Darling of nail, excess melon

Onychauxis

Abnormal thick nails

Nail bed

Portion of skin that the nail plate rests on

Onychocryptosis

Ingrown nail

Blue nails

Poor circulation, heart condition, injury

Pedicure

Care of the feet, skin, and nails

Nail Folds

Skin folds that forms the grooves

Nail Sidewall

Lateral (side) nail fold that overlaps the side of nail.

Agnail

Hang nail, split cuticle.

Kolionychia

Spoon nails,concave nails.

Nail Pterygium

Forward growth of living cuticle.

Trumpet or Pinder Nail

Fold or curl

Onychomadesis

Complete shedding of nail.

Nail Plate

Nail body, from root to free edge.

Free Edge

Extends beyond the finger tip.

Lunula

White half moon shape.